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Place, — They grow very common every where ; unless 

 you tarn yoar head into a hedge you cannot but see them 

 as you walk. 



Time. — They flower in May and June, even until 

 September. 



Oovemment and Fir^wM.— This fiery and hot-spirited 

 herb of Mars is no way fit to be given inwardly, but an 

 ointment of the leaves or flowers will draw a blister, and 

 may be so fitly applied to the nape of the neck to draw 

 back rheum from the eyes. The herb being bruised and 

 mixed with a little mustard, draws a blister as well, and 

 as perfectly as cantharidea, and with far less danger to 

 the vessels of urine, which cantharides naturally de- 

 light to wrong. I knew the herb once applied to a pesti- 

 lential rising that was fallen down, and it saved life even 

 beyond hope : it were good to keep an ointment and plas- 

 ter of it^ if it were but for that 



CUCKOO-PINT.— (^ilrwrn Vulgare.) 



It is called Alron, Janus, Barba-aron, Calve's-foot, Bamp^ 

 Starchwort, Cuckoo-pintle^ Priest's- pintle, and Wake 

 Robin. 



Deecrip, — This shooteth forth three, four or five leaves 

 at the most fiom one root, every one whereof is some- 

 what large and long, broad at the bottom next the stalk, 

 and forked but ending in a point, without a cut on the 

 edge, of a full nreen colour, each standing upon a thick 

 round stalk, oi a hand-breadth long or more, among 

 which, after two or three months that they begin to 

 wither, riseth up a bare, round, whitish green stalk, 

 spotted and streaked with purple, somewhat higher than 

 the leaves ; at the top whereof standeth a long hollow 

 husk close at the bottom, but open from the middle up- 

 wards, ending in a point ; in the middle whereof stands 

 the small, long pestle or clapper, smaller at the bottom 

 than at the top, of a dark purple colour, as the husk is on 

 the inside, though green without, which after it hath so 

 abided for some time, the husk with the clapper de- 

 cayeth, and the foot or bottom thereof groweth to be a 

 •inall long bunch of berries, green at the first, and of a 

 yellowish colour when they are ripe, of the bigness of a 

 hazel-nut kernel, which abideth thereon ahnost until 

 winter ; the root is round and somewhat long, for the 

 part lying along, the leaves ohooting forth at the 



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